Depending on the context on your site, you can achieve that effect by placing you div in another div and then work with the marginTop property. We did it here: http://www.sleeq.com - if you move the mouse over the five "panels", you will see the divs "growing up" =)
Good luck! Mickster On Apr 11, 7:16 am, Daniel Friesen <nadir.seen.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can also cause the illusion of the contents sticking as it grows by > messing with the scrollTop as it's animated. I don't know specifically > how one might do that with jQuery though. > Hmmm... maybe something like {scrollTop:"stick"} is plugin worthy. > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) > > Jeffrey Kretz wrote: > > If your div is absolutely positioned, you could do this a couple of > > different ways: > > > 1) Set the bottom position of the div to a specific point. Then animating > > the height will cause it to grow upward. > > 2) Animate the top position of the div and the height at the same time. > > > If you're not absolutely positioning your div, then I don't really know how > > you expect a div to animate "upward". > > > JK > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jquery-ui@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > > Behalf Of Daniel Friesen > > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 9:48 PM > > To: jquery-ui@googlegroups.com > > Subject: [jquery-ui] Re: Grow Div Upward > > > All jQuery does is animate the height css value. > > That kind of functionality is beyond the scope of jQuery. > > > How the animation looks (animate up/down) is dependent on the browser, > > in other words the other css applied to your div. > > > Perhaps you question is better suited to the main jQuery list. > > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) > > > Tim wrote: > > >> Using the animate function I only seem to be able to grow a div down, > >> instead I'd like to grow the div upwardly > > >> Any ideas? > > >> $(this).animate({height:'+=400px'},"slow"); --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-ui@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-ui+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---